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There seems to be a demand for developers who know the internals of Postgres to evolve and customize it given that it is being used, at different levels of abst

There seems to be a demand for developers who know the internals of Postgres to evolve and customize it given that it is being used, at different levels of abstraction/layers, by basically all cloud providers (AWS, MS, Google, etc) and by some DB SaaS. BTW, that would be a cool job to have...

johnthescott 4y ago
more like ice cold.
kiwicopple 4y ago
We’re hiring for this role at supabase (if you’re looking): https://boards.greenhouse.io/supabase/jobs/4307456004 https://boards.greenhouse.io/supabase/jobs/4307456004
httgp 4y ago
A ton of companies are building on top of PostgreSQL — Yugabyte, Supabase, EdgeDB and Neon.
- yashap 4y ago
  Another recent one, AlloyDB from Google Cloud. Looks pretty interesting/promising. Sort of like their competitor to AWS Aurora, built on top of Postgres, with the added ability to handle OLAP workloads well (along with apparently great OLTP performance). TimescaleDB and Citus are notable too. But yeah, if you’re building a DB product, starting with Postgres and customizing from there seems like an excellent approach.
- thejosh 4y ago
  Hopefully pushing back upstream. I don't really care what they do, as long as they push back their usually awesome changes upstream. Great to see these sorts of things, Postgres has been amazing and glad people realise it.
  - sudhirj 4y ago
    Most of the changes aren’t relevant to upstream - a lot these companies seem to be using Postgres as a frontend over some kind of secret sauce, usually related to custom storage or deployments or the like. Postgres seems very modular and pluggable that way. I assume for the common Postgres core changes everyone is already incentivised to contribute changes back upstream - the companies are banking on Postgres popularity can need it to have an excellent reputation even outside of their specific customised offering.
LoriP 4y ago
Timescale is hiring for a Software Engineer (Database Internals) and this could also be a senior-level hire. It's based on PostgreSQL but if the rest of the resume stacks up it's not 100% essential that you've worked on PostgreSQL internals before. Global, remote.
- avinassh 4y ago
  > It's based on PostgreSQL but if the rest of the resume stacks up it's not 100% essential that you've worked on PostgreSQL internals before What would be an ideal resume for someone who never worked on Postgres

johnthescott 4y ago

more like ice cold.

kiwicopple 4y ago

We’re hiring for this role at supabase (if you’re looking): https://boards.greenhouse.io/supabase/jobs/4307456004 https://boards.greenhouse.io/supabase/jobs/4307456004

httgp 4y ago

A ton of companies are building on top of PostgreSQL — Yugabyte, Supabase, EdgeDB and Neon.

yashap 4y ago
Another recent one, AlloyDB from Google Cloud. Looks pretty interesting/promising. Sort of like their competitor to AWS Aurora, built on top of Postgres, with the added ability to handle OLAP workloads well (along with apparently great OLTP performance). TimescaleDB and Citus are notable too. But yeah, if you’re building a DB product, starting with Postgres and customizing from there seems like an excellent approach.
thejosh 4y ago
Hopefully pushing back upstream. I don't really care what they do, as long as they push back their usually awesome changes upstream. Great to see these sorts of things, Postgres has been amazing and glad people realise it.
- sudhirj 4y ago
  Most of the changes aren’t relevant to upstream - a lot these companies seem to be using Postgres as a frontend over some kind of secret sauce, usually related to custom storage or deployments or the like. Postgres seems very modular and pluggable that way. I assume for the common Postgres core changes everyone is already incentivised to contribute changes back upstream - the companies are banking on Postgres popularity can need it to have an excellent reputation even outside of their specific customised offering.

LoriP 4y ago

Timescale is hiring for a Software Engineer (Database Internals) and this could also be a senior-level hire. It's based on PostgreSQL but if the rest of the resume stacks up it's not 100% essential that you've worked on PostgreSQL internals before. Global, remote.

avinassh 4y ago
> It's based on PostgreSQL but if the rest of the resume stacks up it's not 100% essential that you've worked on PostgreSQL internals before What would be an ideal resume for someone who never worked on Postgres